Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first test of Carter's support after the Iranian debacle came in the Michigan caucuses, where Ted Kennedy edged Carter by 71 delegates to 70. Said Sam Fishman, a political organizer for the United Auto Workers and a Kennedy backer: "If the rescue effort had been successful, Carter would have won by a fairly substantial margin. But it didn't work, and that had to have some negative impact...
...People-blackboards situated at city street corners using cartoons to instruct Mozambicans on the government's latest concerns, strictures or admonishments, such as guarding against subversives and working hard. In the past, two of the archvillains have been former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Uncle Sam. In these changing times, however, Mozambicans may have seen the last of both characters...
...date was June 4, 1973, the setting a closed session of Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee. G. Gordon Liddy was scheduled to testify before newsmen and TV cameras. But first he had to be sworn in for preliminary quizzing, and Ervin drawled the routine question: "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" Liddy's frank answer to the committee...
...Carter Administration decided early on that new federal laws were not the answer; Uncle Sam's money would be better spent chasing big-time traffickers. Instead, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) drafted a model anti-paraphernalia statute last fall that it maintains will withstand constitutional challenge, and began encouraging interested states and localities to enact it. The model prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, advertisement and use of any object that is intended for growing or ingesting an illegal drug. The trouble with such language is that it tends to be overly broad. Authorities would have to prove...
...time it seems that Sybylla will indeed submit, though not before a wild fox chase. She makes life miserable for an unsuitable suitor (so identified because his hair is parted in the middle), and is even harder on the suitable chap, Harry Beecham (Sam Neill), who is solemn, good-looking and earnest. But when she prankishly overturns a boat in which they are punting, soaking them both in their decorous, neck-to-ankle costumes, it can be assumed that she likes him. When he proposes, it is hard for her not to accept...